Italian political leader.
Il Duce was prime minister (1922-43) and the first of 20th-century Europe's fascist dictators; allied with Adolf Hitler, 1939.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.